Re: bhyve and backed-up dd disk image

2017-10-02 Thread tech-lists
Hi, I should have mentioned at the start - the disk image system ran ZFS as does the freebsd host. I tried to boot the image like this: sh /usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh -c 4 -m 4096M -t tap0 -d disk.img diskimage It loads the spash screen and tries to boot but then drops me to the mountroo

Re: bhyve and backed-up dd disk image

2017-10-01 Thread tech-lists
On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 09:35:08PM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: It depends on whether you have the required virtio devices in the kernel, or can load them from the bootloader. aha - so GENERIC kernel thanks, -- J. ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd

Re: bhyve and backed-up dd disk image

2017-10-01 Thread Julian Elischer
On 29/9/17 10:37 pm, tech-lists wrote: Hello list, Would I be able to spin up in bhyve a disk image that had been obtained from the disk of a bare-metal standard freebsd installation? thanks, It depends on whether you have the required virtio devices in the kernel, or can load them from the

Re: bhyve and backed-up dd disk image

2017-09-30 Thread Peter Grehan
Hi, Would I be able to spin up in bhyve a disk image that had been obtained from the disk of a bare-metal standard freebsd installation? In theory, yes. There will always be some issues with differences in devices (e.g. using igb0 on the host, but vtnet0 in the guest). later, Peter. _